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Change Business Analyst
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Job Description
About Aberdeen
Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, built on a culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together, we invest for a better future, impacting the lives of our clients, employees, society, and shareholders. Our business is structured around three areas: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive investor.
About the Department
The Corporate Tribe delivers change across Aberdeen’s corporate functions, helping teams operate effectively, manage risk, and meet regulatory obligations. Working closely with Finance, HR, Technology, and business stakeholders, the team turns strategic priorities into practical outcomes. Collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence are central to how the team works.
About the Role
Based in Edinburgh, this permanent Change Business Analyst role sits within the Corporate Tribe and focuses on delivering change across corporate functions, particularly Finance and HR. You will shape business problems into clear requirements, decisions, and delivery-ready outcomes, working with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts, technology teams, and third-party providers. This role offers an opportunity to have a direct impact on how critical business functions operate while developing your expertise in a fast-paced financial services environment. Through complex transformation and operational change initiatives, you will build deep business analysis and stakeholder management experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead analysis activities from discovery and problem definition through to delivery support.
- Elicit, analyse, and document requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, process impacts, and operating model considerations.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions, driving clarity on priorities, decisions, risks, and dependencies.
- Assess impacts across Finance, HR, Technology, Data, Risk, Procurement, and third-party providers.
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, governance activities, and delivery readiness.
- Ensure requirements and acceptance criteria are clear, prioritised, testable, and aligned to business outcomes.
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About the Candidate
Essential skills
- Experience personally leading business analysis from initial discovery through to documented requirements, process impacts, acceptance criteria, and delivery support.
- Direct experience personally leading business analysis on at least one substantive change initiative within a corporate Finance or HR function.
- Ability to provide a clear example explaining the business problem, analysis personally undertaken, processes affected, and resulting delivery or business outcome.
Desirable skills
- ERP, Finance, or HR systems change;
- Regulated or deadline-driven change;
- Agile or hybrid delivery; or
- Change spanning more than one corporate function.
Our Benefits
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare, and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans, and access to an employee discount portal.
Our Business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs.
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An Inclusive Way of Working
At Aberdeen, we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching, and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients, and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible, or invisible disability – please let us know, and we’ll be happy to help.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness, and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
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